[plug] Linux on Macintosh 8500/120

Quintin Lette qlette at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 08:51:14 WST 2005


I have had debian running on a 7200/120 (pci based) which ran fine. I
was running it as a server though, so I didn't try running X or sound.


On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:20:05 +0800, Craig Ringer
<craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 23:06 +0800, Gavin Rogers wrote:
> > Hi All.
> >
> > Anyone have any luck on running Linux on an elderly Macintosh 8500/120? I'd
> > be specifically be interested in how successful the onboard audio/video
> > input output support is. Does it work?
> 
> I had an old MkLinux running on my 7200/66 once. Video worked OK -
> though it was an unaccelerated framebuffer (like VESA console -
> sloooow).
> 
> What Linux distro to choose will depend a lot on the machine, in
> particular whether it's a NuBus or PCI based mac.
> 
> --
> Craig Ringer
> 
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